Ep. 340 - The Don't-Say-The-S-Word Baptist Convention

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — If you’re a pastor, maybe don’t use your work email to send hateful racist messages based on a hoax. (0:55) — The Southern Baptist Convention is drifting away from the word “Southern.” (11:45) — “Evangelicals for Social Action” is getting rid of the first word because it’s too toxic. (19:18) — Scientific American issued its first-ever endorsement for Joe Biden. Will it matter? (22:19) — Don’t be this mom complaining about a Bible reading in your daughter’s English class. (38:00) — Democrats can and should reach out to non-religious voters. (51:00) — A Republican state senator who participated in a protest against climate change just lost his home due to the wildfires. (56:11) — A California church will finally stop its indoor services. It just took a fine of $112,750. (1:00:16) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemmant and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast if you like what you're going to please go to
0:06.8	Patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast and I did want to give a shout out to a few of our latest patrons Dave S Craig H and wait for it
0:19.3	vegan Fabio
0:22.4	Finally we've been courting his patrons Fabio. Oh, finally.
0:23.0	We've been courting his patronage for a long time.
0:26.0	That is correct.
0:27.0	How are you doing?
0:29.0	I'm okay, getting ready to go away for the weekend,
0:33.0	which is still a very strange thing.
0:34.9	We're going to Southern Illinois,
0:36.5	the famous Wine Trail, the lower Midwest, I guess.
0:41.8	And I've been $40 on cheese last night. we're Midwest I guess. That's where everyone goes.
0:43.0	$40 on cheese last night.
0:44.8	So I'm pretty good.
0:47.0	Have you?
0:48.0	Excellent.
0:49.0	Good fine, very sleepy.
0:51.0	I blame the children.
0:52.0	As always. I have this for you and it's so new and I'm so
0:57.4	excited to tell you about it. Okay, get this. There is a writer named Sarah Jong. She used to write for the New York Times. She doesn't anymore.
1:07.0	Okay, fine. When she was hired by the New York Times, there were a bunch of people very, very upset about this.
1:14.4	One, because she's very sarcastic on Twitter.
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